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  2. Batesian mimicry - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] This naturalistic explanation fitted well with the recent account of evolution by Wallace and Charles Darwin , as outlined in his famous 1859 book The Origin of Species . Because the Darwinian explanation required no supernatural forces, it met with considerable criticism from anti-evolutionists , both in academic circles and in the ...

  3. Mimicry - Wikipedia

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    It derives from the Greek term mimetikos, "imitative", in turn from mimetos, the verbal adjective of mimeisthai, "to imitate". [1] "Mimicry" was first used in zoology by the English entomologists William Kirby and William Spence in 1823. [2] [3] Originally used to describe people, "mimetic" was used in zoology from 1851. [1]

  4. Biomimetics - Wikipedia

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    The term bionic then became associated with "the use of electronically operated artificial body parts" and "having ordinary human powers increased by or as if by the aid of such devices". [14] Because the term bionic took on the implication of supernatural strength, the scientific community in English speaking countries largely abandoned it. [12]

  5. 2 Baruch - Wikipedia

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    2 Baruch is a Jewish apocryphal text thought to have been written in the late 1st century CE or early 2nd century CE, after the destruction of the Temple in CE 70. It is attributed to the biblical figure Baruch ben Neriah (c. 6th century BC) and so is associated with the Old Testament, but not regarded as scripture by Jews or by most Christian groups.

  6. Baruch ben Neriah - Wikipedia

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    According to Josephus, Baruch was a Jewish aristocrat, a son of Neriah and brother of Seraiah ben Neriah, chamberlain of King Zedekiah of Judah. [2] [3]Baruch became the scribe of the prophet Jeremiah and wrote down the first and second editions of his prophecies as they were dictated to him. [4]

  7. Echopraxia - Wikipedia

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    Echopraxia is a typical symptom of Tourette syndrome but causes are not well elucidated. [1]Frontal lobe animation. One theoretical cause subject to ongoing debate surrounds the role of the mirror neuron system (MNS), a group of neurons in the inferior frontal gyrus (F5 region) of the brain that may influence imitative behaviors, [1] but no widely accepted neural or computational models have ...

  8. Neoteny - Wikipedia

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    Neoteny in humans is the slowing or delaying of body development, compared to non-human primates, resulting in features such as a large head, a flat face, and relatively short arms. These neotenic changes may have been brought about by sexual selection in human evolution .

  9. Sleeping Beauty transposon system - Wikipedia

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    Figure 2: Structural features of SB transposase. The 360-amino acid polypeptide has three major subdomains: the amino-terminal DNA-recognition domain that is responsible for binding to the DR sequences in the mirrored IR/DR sequences of the transposon, a nuclear localization sequence (NLS), and a DDE domain that catalyzes the cut-and-paste set ...